Word: peoria
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...Peoria has given me all of that. After all, the third-largest city in the state has long been equated with the essence of middle America...
...Peoria, Illinois. When I moved to this city of 112,000 in June, I expected to find myself living among all things all-American...
...years, Peoria was the test-marketing capital of the nation before the equally unremarkable Des Moines, Iowa, stole away that distinction. Company after company brought their products to the heart of Illinois, assuming that if their TV dinners and stainless steel knives were good enough for Peorians, they were good enough for the rest of blue-collar America. The old vaudeville saying, "Will it play in Peoria?" took on new meaning as the city became a benchmark for the nation, helping to gauge American attitudes toward politics, religion and culture...
...trumpeting this achievement. But beyond the flowery rhetoric, what will Roth's bill do? Some of the provisions, such as creating an independent appeals process for taxpayers, make good sense and cost no money. Others, like putting a time limit on failure-to-pay penalties, might play well in Peoria but will cost the administration a total of $18 billion over 10 years. Some clauses sound downright dubious: Who wants to tell the voters that the Senate just handed the IRS 40 new executives...
...Kharga Oasis, some 125 miles southwest of Luxor, Egypt, is hardly the first place you'd think to look for mummies. No pyramids loom there; no mausoleums mark it as a portal through which Egyptian nobles entered the afterlife. Think of it as the Peoria of Pharaonic times, a backwater where ordinary peasants and farmers lived and died--and left pretty ordinary remains...